Thursday, March 28, 2013

Over the weekend MoMA visitors came upon Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass
box. The performance art is called "The
Maybe.” MoMA spokesperson said "The Maybe" is "a very unusual case"
because the museum didn’t actively
publicize the attraction, which seems to be a key part of the performance."There is no published schedule for its
appearance, no artist's statement released, no museum statement, no public
profile or image issued," the statement regarding the exhibit says.
"Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real -
shared - time: now we see it, now we don't.""The Maybe" will happen periodically
through the end of 2013.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Logan Lecture DAM Contemporaries last night, Alfredo Jarr discussed and showed slides of his many intervention projects. One in Skoghall, Sweden. was especially provocative!
Jaar was invited to Skoghall where he constructed a paper museum, organized a one-day exhibition, and then had the structure set on fire. The timing, temporarily, and duration of this project—as well as its denouncement—had a theatrical character.
“I was shocked to discover that a community could exist for thirty years without any visible cultural or exhibition space. How do you represent it the absence of this space for culture in an entire community? I found it hard to believe that people could live without it the intellectual and critical stimulus that visual art can provide^to question, to speculate, and to search. It blew my mind. I sought a spectacular way to deal with this lack. I created an exhibition space for twenty-four hours and then burned it!"